Thursday, February 4, 2010

It was just a little over a year ago that I posted the first article on this website. I would have overlooked that fact, but in the past few days I've gotten anniversary notices that I can't ignore, reminding me that I have to renew some of the basic services (domain names, web forwarding, post office box, etc.) that support the site.
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Dr. Keyes, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I did not realize it had been that long - and the long legged mack daddy is STILL in OUR White House! BUT many people are still working to justify that, thanks to your insight and education. Thank you.

I am unemployed at the moment, but would be willing to help out the cause, praying that GOD would bless the amount I send to do abundant work and educate many more as to why we are in the position we are in, in this country.

I read your link to the left here at the "MOMMY" blog. I read several of her posts and the comments and saw once again why our forefathers thought it prudent to not have every idiot voting. Not to sway elections per se, but because everyone does not really have a stake in our country. Not even some of its citizens.

It is better for stupid people to just be blissful in their stupidity. They need not have the right to destroy what others have worked so hard to build. The image of an one armed person with only a left arm being given an oar and told to row a boat on their right side comes to mind. It' s possible, but they would most likely move to the side they FEEL more comfortable with.

Of course, that is just a wild comparison, probably not as descriptive as it could be, but I see most of us voters as having oars. WE are the ones who make this country work. I guess maybe it is healthy to have people on both sides of the boat - it has worked for hundreds of years, but seems as though while the captain is sleeping (we don't really HAVE a captain right now, do we?) that many are pretending to be on one side of the boat, but are really not rowing. They are in the middle trying to see what the left is doing and how they can row like them.

I am not impressed with Senator Ron Paul because to me he is just another Obama. He wants to CHANGE America into HIS image. And from the little I have read of his son, he sounds like he is not as vocal and out there as his dad, but a little slicker with his words (or rather those of his handlers) and well versed in political maneuvering (telling lies) to win elections.

If we do not get a handle on the fact that these people will lie, cheat, steal and kill to get to and hold on to these positions of power they so lustfully desire, we are going to keep suffering in this country. Just like the lie they put out today that unemployment has gone down. Yeah... right...

We need to get it together and fast. Once this election cycle is over in November, we will be STUCK in whatever happens for TWO MORE YEARS. Can we afford that morally OR financially? Is it worth the pride and arrogance I hear and read from the arguments of "people on the right" to put our children's future at risk? We are more interested in our perceptions than the reality of who we are voting for? THIS IS NOT AMERICAN IDOL PEOPLE.

This is a video of bringing back G-d into public schools. A background, the Lubabitcher Rebbe,Rabbi Menachem Mendel Scheerson of blessed memory (who was one of the greatest Jewish leaders of the 20th century, and his teaching are is the basis of so many Jewish outreach centers all over the globe) he has a mission for public schools to have a moment of silence for prayer. I share this because I believe those like Dr.Keyes, who are G-d fearing people and a true friend of Jews, can share in how all people understanding the importance of thinking about G-d, and starting the day with a prayer.

Congradulations Dr. Keyes. I came in here shortly after this blog was started but had no clue how "young" it was. Right away I was impressed with the strength and scope of topics and arguments. I have spread the word as much as possible and I pray that the message continues to grow in this increasingly desparate society.

I look forward to being enlightened every time I come in here. Thank you for your devotion to the truth.

Dr. Keyes, I hope you see this. I just got home and while driving, I was listening to "The Savage Nation." I am sure by now that you are aware that our country has been threatened by the 'supreme leader' of Iran. IT IS NOT ON THE "NEWS" ANYWHERE!

I have family out of the country on vacation. I have a grandmother that lives out in the country by herself. I am not too comfortable that our 'supreme leader' has not even turned his teleprompter on - not that I EXPECTED anything more. He probably has helped them plan whatever they are trying to pull off.

I do not know if this IS serious, but anytime a maniacal WORLD leader (he leads MORE than the people in Iran) makes a threat against another country WITH A SPECIFIC DATE (like President G.W. Bush did to Iraq), there is something going on.

Maybe Obama & Rahm Emanuel called him and asked him to brew up something so they could have a crisis and do some more dirt to us while no one is looking (like ANYONE HAS been looking anyway!!!), I don't know, but I would not be able to sit around and act as if someone had sent me an early Valentine!

Dr. Savage was outraged and so am I. I am so sick of this pretentious, self-indulgent loony tune that is in OUR White House. And his faked out wife who is running around the country trying to tell people how to eat. We are being threatened and she is on the "news" telling people how to eat??????????

Gilbert,To put this simply think interest groups on a global scale. It seems that these group always have the magnifying glass on the USA as this may be the most effective place to get fires going. The information you get, the improper word usage ((language/argument control) Carl Marx/John Dewey), overt and covert lies, and the laws that bind you into that web are all there for very specific reasons.

To sum it up, yes indeed, something IS going on. That thing going on has everything to do with why Dr. Keyes is continuously denied a proper platform for the masses to have a fair opportunity at hearing an honest debate. That sort of thing might be too costly to the interests of those power centralized groups.

I couldn't agree with you more PBunyon, it is just very frustrating that in a case like this, very few of our citizens seem to be even slightly bothered - the few I have talked to did not even know. They sure were in that superbowl though...

From keeping up with Joel Rosenberg's blog too, I know that people across the world are alarmed, but it seems as if everything that happens to us - well, we are too aloof. I do not know what happened to this country after 9/11, but I am SURE that after Pearl Harbor... well, I will suffice it to say that people are STILL affected by that attack on our country.

I still would that JESUS would raise George Washington - just for a week - but then again, nah. It is our turn to stand up for OUR children's sake AND no one would pay him any mind anyway...

Just like you said about Dr. Keyes and how Dr. Manning has been treated, Dr. Taitz and many others that are sounding SERIOUS alarms.

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I've never been sure the old maxim made much sense. It gives your enemies rather too much control over the identification of your friends. What's more, it allows people who really aren't your friends to identify themselves as such just by opposing your enemies. Doesn't that make it easier for your enemies to plant agents in your midst with no more effort than it takes to stage a phony brawl?Because they live in such a hostile media environment, conservatives are all too willing to embrace any media voice that seems to take on their left wing opponents. But this means that at critical moments (particularly when it comes to personnel choices) they will be susceptible to information provided by people who have only been fighting with their enemies in order to get into a better position to do in the people whose sincerity, ability and leadership offer conservatives the greatest promise of success.In this regard I have observed that the most important information conservatives can get from Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel is silence: the things and people Fox positively ignores. You can be sure someone you know to be conservative is standing firm for what's right when you can't remember the last time you saw or heard anything positive about them on Fox News. Think of all the reporting they've done on the issue of Obama's eligibility for the Presidency.Listen to the silence. Better yet, learn from it.

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THOUGHTLET "A little thought (that) goes a long way."

During my service as an Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State under President Reagan, a quiet but constant tug of war went on between the Reagan conservatives and the Bush Republicans, though supposedly all of us were pulling in the same direction.My brief as Assistant Secretary for International Organizations (IO- the bureau that, among other things, keeps track of the goings-on at the United Nations)included implementing Reagan's policy of withholding U.S. contributions to the UN until real management reforms were agreed upon and carried forward.I also got involved with issues that reflected Reagan's principled pro-life stands, and his strong commitment to defend Israel from the Arab inspired lynch mob more or less permanently on call throughout the UN system during those years.

Apparently one of the more polite terms of opprobrium the Bush forces used to pan conservatives like me was that we were excessively "ideological".To tell the truth, I always wore the intended slight as a badge of honor, sinceit signified theirreaction to my consistent efforts to make sure my actions served the ideas and principles Reagan stood for.

Meanwhile whether in or out of power the leftists who control the Democrat party have had no qualms about being "excessively ideological."While the Bush Republicans obligingly kept real conservatives running in place throughout their years of pre-eminence (while sopping them periodically with rhetoric and phony gestures of support), the Democrats looked for ways to promote their agenda of abortion, state atheism, and the erosive destruction of the traditional family (It's the major obstacle to totalitarian government control of the society.)Now that the leftists are surging with confidence, Obama shows no qualms about promoting "excessively ideological" extremists like Chas Freeman and Kathleen Sebelius to positions of controlling authority in the areas where they can do the most harm (from a conservative point of view.)Instead of running in place, they're poised to rush forward, like a good running back exploiting the chink of daylight that signals the way to at least a first down and who knows what more beyond that.

When are conservatives going to wake up and ponder the fact that the acronym for Running In Place is- R.I.P.

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As I consider the reaction to my statement that Obama is a communist, I realize how thoroughly the Obama faction's media claque takes advantage of the ignorance even of those who are supposed to be educated and sophisticated spokespeople for conservative views. In this respect I am somewhat disadvantaged by my relatively small stake in this ignorance when it comes to political theory and ideology. For instance, people tend to associate the term "communist" with the violent takeover of government and society. Yet a thoroughly committed communist like Italy's Antonio Gramsci developed an understanding of the nature of political control, and therefore the path to power over a society, far more sophisticated than Marx's economic determinism. (Or was it in fact a more sophisticated understanding of economics?) It was therefore better suited to understanding and exploiting the "ideological" (i.e., spiritual and moral) vulnerabilities of the opponents of communism. In particular, his theories allowed for far greater use of cultural influences (the news and entertainment media, churches and other religious institutions, movements like "gay rights" that contribute to the destruction of moral institutions like the family, etc.) than some people associate with the term "communism". They helped later leftists to understand, explain and avoid (by learning from and adapting the enemy's tactics) defeats like those that fascism inflicted on mid-twentieth century communism in Italy and elsewhere.Reading Gramsci, one senses that he is looking at the intellectual framework for the Obama faction's secret strategic plan. As Sherlock Holmes knew, there's sometimes no hiding place more secure than one that is in plain sight. Especially in an era when the leftist takeover of education produces fewer and fewer people in each generation who bother to read books, especially the ones without pictures in them. (There's a good summary of Gramsci's thinking at http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-gram.htm)

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Apparently most of the people in Congress who voted on the so-called stimulus package had no time to read it, even superficially. That might seem like fodder for a late night comedy routine, until it occurs to you to wonder who did read it? After all, if the elected representatives of the people are just rubber stamping legislation prepared for them by others, its drafters are the ones dictating the decision. Congress sinks into the role reserved for the People's Congresses in places like North Korea or the now defunct Soviet Union. How quickly the substance of constitutional self-government is being turned into the perfunctory sham characteristic of stolid party dictatorships ruled from the background by a handful of unaccountable little despots.

How many Americans wake up every day longing to live under party dictators, worshiping at the altar of a propagandized personality cult, in a world where party hacks offer the only hope of relief from bureaucratic tyranny? All in exchange for a surfeit of meaningless sex and the license to kill your unwanted offspring.

I used always to think of places under communist yoke as regions languishing under perpetually cloudy skies. Actually though, it wasn't the sun's light it cut off, but the light of true human personality. Would any sane people exchange even the worst risks of life in freedom for such soul stifling banality? Will we?

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's not a thought likely to occur to anyone thinking about the banking system these days. It's broke alright. Insolvency is the word of the day, along with that other word, nationalization. Funny how so many people who think the nation state has effectively ceased to exist when it comes to borders and immigration suddenly rediscover its powers when it's time to take over the banks.

"But Alan," you protest "we badly need a solution." Which, I reply, is not a good reason to accept a bad one. In fact , if things have gotten as bad as they say, maybe we should step back so as to let our thinking leap forward.

True, If it ain't broke, you don't fix it. But if it's really broke, you don't fix it either, you throw it away and replace it with something that works better. Instead of taking the bad logic of a failed centralized banking system to its logical conclusion (total centralization), replace the logic with something more suited to the twenty-first century. The twentieth century was all about bigger, more regulated and extensive organization. The hallmark of the twenty-first is the network, the model work-in-progress of which is the internet. It depends on decentralized, individual units, that reach out and form communities based on direct interaction and mutual assessment, rather than a centrally determined distribution of information (like a central bank's fixing the interest rate.)

If the present banking system is failing- let it fail. That's the first step in preparing the way for the emergence of twenty-first century financial networks. Instead of pretending that bankrupt governments can magically save a bankrupt system, accept the fact that the financial Titanic is sinking. Get people out of it, and use what resources we have to construct and launch the fleet of lifeboats in which they can distance themselves from the vortex it causes as it goes down. What I think we'll discover is that the new system we need will emerge from the resulting fleet, as we use twenty-first century tools to turn it into a floating net that won't be susceptible to the cascading disasters of the obsolete vessel. This deserves longer thought, which I give it in the essay Real Change Step Two: Replacing the Federal Reserve.

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I think it's not an accident that the American founders spoke of the people as a body (that is an organic whole), but the leftist proto-totalitarians that tutor socialists like Obama speak of them as "the masses." A mass is composed of conceptually identical parts, whereas the body is an organic whole in which each part is defined and differentiated by its individual purpose with respect to the whole. Is this why there are so many examples of totalitarian regimes that treat people as if they are mounds of dirt to be shaped and repressed, used or discarded (killed) without respect for their individuality? This totalitarian mentality finds a counterpart in the approach that claims to deal with human affairs scientifically, on the assumption that people are no different than other merely physical things.

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What signals the difference between a "socialist" and a "communist"? It's the gradual repression of political and civil liberty culminating in the open prosecution and suppression of dissident views. But this suppression cannot come about until a monopoly has been established over access to the seats of government executive and decision making power. The key manifestation of this monopoly is of course some form of party dictatorship.

Aside from all the evidence in his known background, associates, policy preferences and political actions one of the main reasons I make bold to call Obama a communist is his grab for unchecked partisan control over the conduct of the next census. Skillful manipulation of the census could make the decisive contribution to establishing an electorally unchallengeable party monopoly, which would then provide the basis for consolidating party dictatorship. If such dictatorship were not part of their agenda, the Obama faction would leave ultimate oversight of the census process where the Constitution places it, in the hands of the legislative branch. As it clearly is part of their agenda, only ignorance or willful stupidity blinds people to Obama's ambition to establish a better tailored version of Soviet-style government in the U.S.

Of course, there may be another name for what keeps some of the so-called Republicans from speaking out about it. Could it be cowardice?

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Everyone's fussing over whether the Alleged Usurper's stimulus plan will help or hurt the economy. Are they missing the point? Massive taxpayer resources are being pumped into Obama's powerbase. His cohorts grow stronger, while the larger economic impact of the plan makes everyone else weaker. Not much of a recovery plan, but a great strategy for securing power.

Then there are all those Hamas loving Palestinians he's using taxpayer money to bring to the U.S. After 9/11 the Palestinians danced in their streets. This time they won't have far to go to dance on our graves.